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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
like
I.preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bit like
▪ She looks a bit like my sister.
a face like thunder (=a very angry expression)
▪ The boss had a face like thunder when he arrived this morning.
attract/draw sb/sth like a magnet
▪ She drew men to her like a magnet.
avoid...like the plague (=try hard to avoid him)
▪ Why did you speak to him? You usually avoid him like the plague.
be shaking like a leaf (=be shaking a lot because you are nervous or frightened)
▪ Diana was shaking like a leaf when she got up to give her talk.
be/seem like a dream (=seem unreal)
▪ That summer was so wonderful it seemed like a dream.
came down on...like a ton of bricks (=very severely)
▪ I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks.
can’t go on like this
▪ I can’t go on like this for much longer.
cry like a baby (=cry a lot and without control)
▪ I cried like a baby when I heard the news.
drinks like a fish (=regularly drinks a lot of alcohol)
▪ My flatmate Cherry drinks like a fish.
eat like a bird (=eat very little)
▪ Ever since she was a child, Jan had always eaten like a bird.
eat like a horse (=eat a lot)
▪ She eats like a horse but never puts on any weight!
exactly like
▪ She tries to be exactly like her older sister.
feel like crying
▪ I feel like crying every time I think about that day.
feels like
▪ It’s nice fabric – it feels like velvet.
felt like
▪ I felt like I’d really achieved something.
fit...like a glove (=fit you very well)
▪ I know this dress is going to fit you like a glove.
grow to like/hate/respect etc
▪ After a while the kids grew to like Mr Cox.
▪ the city he had grown to love
have a memory like a sieve (=forget things very easily)
▪ I'm sorry, I have a memory like a sieve. I forgot you were coming today!
hung like a sword of Damocles over
▪ The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.
hurt like hellinformal (= hurt very much)
▪ My shoulder hurts like hell.
it looks as if/as though/like (=it seems likely that)
▪ It looks as if it might rain later.
▪ It looks like they won’t be needing us any more.
it looks like rain (=rain appears likely because there are dark clouds in the sky)
▪ We ate indoors because it looked like rain.
it seemed like a good idea
▪ Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
It seems like
▪ It seems like you’re catching a cold, Taylor.
it...feels like
▪ It’s been a year since her daughter died, but to her, it still feels like yesterday.
know...like the back of my hand (=I know it very well)
▪ I grew up here; I know the place like the back of my hand.
Like a fool
▪ Like a fool, I accepted straight away.
like a madman
▪ He drives like a madman.
like a maniac
▪ He drove like a maniac to the hospital.
like a man/woman possessedliterary (= with a lot of energy or violence)
like a vice
▪ He held my arm like a vice.
like chalk and cheese
▪ They’re like chalk and cheese, those two.
like it or lump it
▪ It’s the law so you can like it or lump it.
like your style (=approve of the way you do things)
▪ I like your style, Simpson.
like/enjoy cooking
▪ I enjoy cooking at the weekend.
like/love/enjoy nothing better (than)
▪ She likes nothing better than a nice long walk along the beach.
likes and dislikes
▪ A good hotel manager should know his regular guests’ likes and dislikes.
look as if/as though/like
▪ He looked as if he hadn’t washed for a week.
look like
▪ What did the man look like?
look...like
▪ My sister doesn’t look anything like me.
not a bit like
▪ You’re not a bit like your brother.
not like the look of sb/sth (=think that something bad has happened or will happen because of something’s appearance)
▪ We should turn back now. It’s getting dark and I don’t like the look of those rain clouds.
put sth like that/this
▪ ‘He's been completely irresponsible.’ ‘I wouldn’t put it quite like that.’
quite like/enjoy
▪ I quite like Chinese food.
ran like hell (=ran very quickly, especially in order to escape)
▪ He picked up the child and ran like hell.
rather like
▪ Actually I rather like the new style of architecture.
running around like headless chickens (=trying to do a lot of things, in an anxious or disorganized way)
▪ We were all running around like headless chickens.
screaming like a banshee
▪ She was screaming like a banshee.
seemed like hours
▪ We waited for what seemed like hours.
sleep like a log (also sleep like a baby)informal (= sleep very well)
▪ I was exhausted and slept like a log.
spread like wildfire (=spread extremely quickly)
▪ The news spread like wildfire through the town.
sth sounds (like) fun (=seems to be enjoyable)
▪ The picnic sounded like fun.
stuff like that
▪ He does mountain biking and skiing, and stuff like that.
suspiciously like
▪ This sounded suspiciously like an attempt to get rid of me.
sweat like a pig/sweat bucketsinformal (= sweat a lot)
▪ basketball players sweating buckets
talking like that (=expressing things in a particular way)
▪ Don’t let Dad hear you talking like that.
too much like hard work (=it would involve too much work)
▪ Becoming a doctor never interested him. It was too much like hard work.
treat sb like dirtinformal (= very badly and with no respect)
▪ He treated this wife like dirt.
treated...like muck (=very badly)
▪ I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck .
treated...like royalty
▪ At school the other children treated them like royalty.
treat...like a doormat
▪ Don’t let him treat you like a doormat.
turned up like...bad penny (=suddenly appeared)
▪ Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny.
went down like a lead balloon (=was not popular or successful)
▪ The idea went down like a lead balloon.
what seemed like an eternity
▪ Here she waited for what seemed like an eternity.
what sounded like
▪ I heard what sounded like fireworks.
What...like about
▪ What I like about the job is that it’s never boring.
would dearly like
▪ I would dearly like to know what she said.
would like/love/prefer
▪ Yes, please, I’d love a coffee.
▪ My parents would like to meet you.
▪ Claudia would have liked to refuse wanted to refuse, but she didn’t dare.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be/feel) like a fish out of water
▪ I felt like a fish out of water.
▪ In his first interview since the move, he still looks like a fish out of water.
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
a face like thunder
▪ She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder.
a voice like a foghorn
anything like sb/sth
▪ Does Brenda look anything like her mother?
as if/as though/like you own the place
be (like) a drug
▪ At 17 he was a drug addict.
▪ Casodex is a drug that blocks the release of testosterone, a hormone that is linked to prostate cancer.
▪ I would have loved a drink, but I thought it might be drugged.
▪ Of those held in federal rather than state prisons, 60 % are drug offenders with no history of violence.
▪ The more complete descriptive term is drug elimination half-life.
▪ The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.
▪ The robber bridegroom could be a drug pusher in-stead of a homicidal cannibal, for instance.
▪ Tobacco is a drug and addicts should be given a chance to ease off gradually.
be (like) a morgue
be (like) a mother to sb
be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall
be dropping like flies
▪ Players from both teams are dropping like flies.
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be dying/dropping etc like flies
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ The men were dying like flies, of fever.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be like a bear with a sore head
be like gold dust
be like talking to a brick wall
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be packed like sardines
▪ We were packed like sardines on the train.
▪ On the other side of the building turtles are packed like sardines into more tanks.
be selling/going like hot cakes
be to sb's liking
▪ I hope everything in the suite was to your liking, sir.
▪ After deciding that a paper looks, feels and smells to your liking, a few other factors should be considered.
▪ Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.
▪ However, with the two medium-sized potatoes and a spoonful of carrots, she found this also quite to her liking.
▪ Joining the group for 12 laps of grassy field surrounding the track, I found their easy pace to my liking.
▪ Need I add that impairment is more to my liking than good health?
▪ She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last.
▪ The second half is more to her liking.
▪ This may be to your liking so it is worth experimenting with three, four and five rises.
be/feel like a new man/woman
be/feel/look like your old self
▪ After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
▪ Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
▪ It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
▪ Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
▪ She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
▪ She looked nothing like her photograph.
▪ The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
can read sb like a book
▪ I can read you like a book - some book I've read six times already.
come down on sb like a ton of bricks
do sth like the devil
▪ They rang the doorbell and ran like the devil.
▪ He holds me like the devil himself.
▪ Hencke heard one canister bounce off the outer hull with a dull echo like the Devil knocking at the door.
▪ It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil.
▪ Not screaming, although some of them must have fought like the devil not to.
▪ The hitchhiker keeps showing up, like a bad dream, like the devil himself.
▪ They scampered off, barking like the devil.
▪ Very good, Thérèse conceded afterwards: just like the Devil would do.
do sth like there's no tomorrow
▪ Ben drives like there's no tomorrow.
▪ I eat and drink like there's no tomorrow.
drop/go down like ninepins
▪ Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
feel like (doing) sth
▪ I just don't feel like doing anything tonight.
▪ Joe says he feels like Mexican food.
▪ But the whole thing feels like a retread.&.
▪ He feels like the captain of a sleeping ship, alone at the helm, steering his oblivious crew through dangerous seas.
▪ I hang up, feeling like a wind-up toy.
▪ She felt like screaming at him, but she was determined not to lose her self-control.
▪ The careful procession into the Hall had felt like a kind of funeral.
▪ They stepped forward, and his muscles stiffened until they felt like bone.
▪ You made me feel like I was your family, a part of you.
feel like/turn to jelly
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
▪ He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
▪ In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
▪ I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
▪ And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
▪ Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit.
▪ Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit.
▪ The school made you feel like shit.
▪ We really do look like shit.
▪ You looked like shit the other night.
fight like cat and dog
for all the world as if/as though/like
for sb's liking
get on/along like a house on fire
get to like/know/understand sb/sth
▪ All I had to do was got to know his taste in food.
▪ Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.
▪ He got to know Bill Clinton quite well when they were together at Oxford as Rhodes scholars.
▪ I would like to get to know customers well 8.
▪ It was one of Brian's three daughters, Karen, who got to know Kirsty.
▪ Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story.
▪ She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people.
▪ So I got, I sort of got to know her.
go down like a lead balloon
go/be out like a light
▪ She was out like a light, as soon as we put her in bed.
▪ A minute later he went out like a light.
▪ Either it was the brandy or it was the heat, but she went out like a light.
▪ I went out like a light.
▪ Something hit me on the back of the head, here, and I went out like a light.
go/run like clockwork
▪ A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
▪ And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.
▪ Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
▪ Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.
▪ Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
have a memory like a sieve
▪ You'd better remind him about the party - he's got a memory like a sieve!
have eyes like a hawk
▪ My mother had eyes like a hawk.
have eyes like a hawk
hit sb like a ton of bricks
▪ The news of her accident hit me like a ton of bricks.
hold/hang on for/like grim death
how about that!/how do you like that!
how you like/want
▪ First decide how you want to set up your directories.
▪ Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
▪ It's how we like to see ourselves.
▪ Live your life how you want.
▪ Oh, how I wanted to win!
▪ Oh, how she wanted him to.
▪ Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
▪ You try reading this with only one eye and see how you like it.
in/like a flash
▪ The computer can sort and edit a mailing list in a flash.
▪ He also had a nature that went violent in a flash.
▪ If he knew what I wanted he'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock.
▪ It's all done in a flash these days.
▪ It was over in a flash.
▪ Shelby chooses the green chair for her dad, then like a flash, she's off to the house.
▪ The lesson seemed to pass in a flash.
▪ Two shots, they stop in a flash.
▪ We went by the tower like a flash and landed on the red cross near the newly set-up hospital tent.
like Darby and Joan
like a (hot) knife through butter
▪ Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter.
like a bat out of hell
▪ I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.
▪ They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.
like a bull at a gate
▪ They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate.
like a bull in a china shop
▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
like a cat on hot bricks
like a dog with two tails
like a dose of salts
▪ L.M. True - like a dose of salts!
like a dream
▪ The new car drives like a dream.
▪ But elsewhere Dream Stuff does not soothe.Life is like a dream because it is beyond control.
▪ He kept talking about it, like a dream.
▪ It is like a dream come true.
▪ Others, like dreams of fame or wealth, are egocentric.
▪ Some, like dreams of providing a great service, are altruistic.
▪ These tiresome but, one hopes, isolated problems aside, our Metro 1.1S is still running like a dream.
▪ Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her.
like a lamb
▪ Suzie went off to school like a lamb today.
▪ He felt he had taken his only child like a lamb to the slaughter.
▪ I certainly don't like lamb for three meals running.
▪ March, according to the weather proverb, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
▪ While others were being lionised he conducted himself like a lamb or even a mouse.
like a lamb to the slaughter
like a mother hen
like a rabbit/deer caught in headlights
like a red rag to a bull
▪ Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
like a shot
▪ She slammed the phone down and was out of the room like a shot.
▪ He asked Jeter if he'd like a shot at it.
▪ I'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam.
▪ It is not a direct stimulant, like a shot of adrenaline.
▪ She'd be off to Legoland like a shot, to see that caretaker, if Henry said anything.
▪ Sometimes they fall over one another, like shots from a rapid-fire camera.
▪ The great majority, once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
▪ Travis had left the door open - she seized her chance, and was through it like a shot.
like an oven
▪ I wish they'd turn off the heat. It's like an oven in here.
▪ It's like an oven in here. Let's open some windows.
▪ The heat of the day made the gymnasium feel like an oven.
▪ Makes it like an oven, spoiling the negatives.
▪ The room is like an oven already.
like anything
▪ Tom only left last week and I already miss him like anything.
▪ But like anything else worthy of our attention, it takes a little educating.
▪ I mean, eight singles hardly seems like anything at all.
▪ If it was like anything, thought Henry, it was probably like the art of eating out.
▪ It may not be perfect, and it may not even be like anything we have seen before.
▪ Somewhat softened by wind erosion, the surface none the less looked more like the lunar highlands than like anything on Earth.
▪ The interior is nothing like anything I've seen before.
▪ They would probably worry like anything.
▪ To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
like blazes
▪ We're going to have to work like blazes to win this time!
▪ You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes.
like clockwork
▪ At 6:30 every evening, like clockwork, Ari went out to milk the cows.
▪ The charity event was well organized and ran like clockwork.
like crazy
▪ These mosquito bites on my leg are itching like crazy.
▪ We ran like crazy to the bus stop.
like father like son
like fun
▪ "I'm going to Barbara's house." "Like fun you are! Come and finish your chores first."
like fury
like gangbusters
▪ Fraser's historical novels are selling like gangbusters.
like getting blood out of a stone
like greased lightning
▪ They expect the bill to move through Congress like greased lightning.
▪ The following passage exemplifies, for Rees, macho characteristics: Clogger moved like greased lightning.
like hell/the hell
like it's going out of fashion
▪ She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.
like lightning
▪ Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles but Mitch moved like lightning and caught her before she fell.
▪ Somewhere a dog barked and, like lightning, the cat darted into some bushes.
▪ The cat ran up the tree like lightning.
like looking for a needle in a haystack
like mad
like magic/as if by magic
like new/as good as new
like nobody's business
▪ People are buying Internet stocks like nobody's business.
like sheep
like so
▪ Then turn the paper over and fold it, like so.
like the cat that got the cream
like the wind
▪ A light wind ruffled the leaves of the trees, but it was warm, not cold like the winds of winter.
▪ Cos it looks like the wind blew her face inside out.
▪ He swept towards me, like the wind raising a storm as soaring eagles raise dust.
▪ Something was sweeping through that massive arena like the wind moving through the top of the trees.
▪ The boy was driving like the wind when suddenly we hit something.
▪ We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda.
▪ Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river.
like two peas in a pod
like water
like water off a duck's back
like weeds
▪ Aerials sprout up like weeds on the roof.
▪ Cars were suffocating the roads like weeds.
▪ Flavor-of-the-month or program-du-jour comments crop up like weeds.
▪ Still, development had sprung up around the edges, like weeds encroaching on a garden.
▪ The eggplants flourished, and the next spring more of them popped up all over the garden like weeds.
liking for sb/sth
▪ She'd tried to hide her liking for him.
look like a drowned rat
▪ Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
▪ You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
make like
make out like a bandit
▪ Insurance companies always make out like bandits.
▪ Salomon Brothers and my customer made out like bandits.
much like sth/much as
▪ Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
▪ For at school, the young man would be surrounded by men much like him-self.
▪ The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside.
▪ They like their bikes to be as much like cars as possible.
▪ What he wanted, of course, was for me to write as much like he did as I possibly could.
need sth like a hole in the head
need/want sth like a hole in the head
not anything like/near
not like the sound of sth
▪ "There's been a slight change in our plans." "I don't like the sound of that."
▪ I just did not like the sound of this woman.
▪ She did not like the sound of those words he was using.
nothing succeeds like success
▪ Initially nothing succeeds like success: but eventually success exceeds itself, and decline and despondency set in.
rise like a phoenix from the ashes
run around like a headless chicken
▪ The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
▪ Little legs going like the clappers.
▪ Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
▪ I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell.
▪ I remember running like hell, knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
▪ I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell.
▪ Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
▪ My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
▪ Run, North, run; just run like hell.
▪ Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
▪ We fought like hell for most of the time.
say what you like
▪ Clearly western painters said what they liked, how they liked.
▪ From now on he could do and say what he liked - they wouldn't raise a squeak.
▪ He could say what he liked, but she was now controlling the agenda.
▪ I can say what I like.
▪ If she just vanishes, Elizabeth Roisin can say what she likes, but there's nothing she can do!
▪ There must, he said, be a place where people are free to say what they like.
▪ We can do what we like and say what we like to whomever we like, without restriction.
▪ While manufacturers say what they like about themselves through advertising, favourable public opinion for their products or services is earned.
sell like hot cakes
smoke like a chimney
▪ She's only thirteen and she already smokes like a chimney.
▪ My granddad, who smoked like a chimney and lived to 97, was lucky enough never to encounter a promoter.
▪ The only sadness was that they all appeared to smoke like chimneys.
something like 100/2,000 etc
▪ Insignia has something like 100 engineers working on its line.
spin like a top
▪ And then the Alouette was spinning like a top and curving off over the Aegean.
▪ Obviously, any knock could send her mind spinning like a top.
sth is (like) a religion
▪ But Cirrito is quick to point out that Rastafarianism is a religion, whereas reggae is a beat.
▪ If there is a theme here, it is religion.
▪ This form of witchcraft is a religion of the earth.
sth is like herding cats
sth is like pulling teeth
▪ Getting the kids to do their homework was like pulling teeth.
stick/stand out like a sore thumb
▪ You can't come to the restaurant dressed in jeans. You'd stick out like a sore thumb.
▪ For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb.
▪ Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb.
▪ Having said that, in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb.
▪ I mean, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
▪ There's no cover, and - as happened to me - any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb.
▪ We stand out like sore thumbs.
▪ You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.
swear like a trooper
▪ Throwing on a dressing-gown and swearing like a trooper, you stumble to answer it.
take a liking to sb/sth
▪ He immediately took a liking to Malden.
▪ Connors had actually taken a liking to me after the incident with the gun.
▪ For some reason she had taken a liking to him.
▪ Fortunately, he had taken a liking to Claudel last year.
▪ He had a fresh, open face, and stars in his eyes, and she took a liking to him at once.
▪ She took a liking to me.
▪ They kept going to this restaurant, and the proprietor took a liking to them.
take to something like a duck to water
▪ She's taken to her new position like a duck to water.
take your medicine (like a man)
▪ Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine.
▪ Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
▪ He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
▪ He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine.
▪ He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine, and started to drink.
▪ His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine, and he travels too much.
▪ Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
▪ Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine.
tell it like it is
▪ But no one can blame Rush for telling it like it is.
▪ He tells it like it is.
▪ I try to tell it like it is.
▪ She tells it like it is, or seems to.
there's nothing like sth
▪ There's nothing like a nice hot bath to help you relax.
▪ And there's nothing like a conversation when you smoke.
▪ Facing page: there's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where's the Kendal Mint cake?
▪ No, there's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself.
▪ Second team or not, however, there's nothing like the first century.
▪ When the weather's good there's nothing like a luxurious dessert to give a special menu a final flourish.
treat sb like shit
▪ Everybody always treats me like shit.
turn up like a bad penny
watch sb like a hawk
▪ Parents should watch their kids like a hawk for sunburns.
▪ And it's putting me off, having you watching me like a hawk all the time.
▪ He seemed to be watching her like a hawk, waiting for some reaction.
▪ Kruger is watching them like a hawk!
▪ They're watching me like hawks here.
▪ Today, more than usual, he had been watching them like a hawk.
what's not to like/love?
work like a Trojan
work like a charm
▪ Our new accounting system works like a charm.
▪ A slap on the hand or the behind works like a charm for one parent-child combination.
▪ But let me first applaud the coupling: it works like a charm.
▪ However, the schmaltzy parts, near the end, work like a charm.
▪ This time, the setup worked like a charm.
work like magic
▪ I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
work like magic/work like a charm
work/run/go like stink
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Like many women her age, she struggled to find a balance between her career and her children.
▪ Fruits like oranges and kiwis have lots of vitamin C.
▪ He moves and talks just like his father.
▪ He stood bolt upright, like a soldier.
▪ Huge trees had snapped like matchsticks in the hurricane-force winds.
▪ I'd love to be able to sing like Ella Fitzgerald.
▪ It's not like Emily to lie.
▪ It looks a bit like a cactus.
▪ Life at college was nothing like I expected.
▪ My mother has a car like yours.
▪ She laughed like a child and played with her hair.
▪ She moves and talks exactly like her mother.
▪ The houses here are like the ones in northern France.
▪ The lamp was round, like a ball.
▪ They were all waving their arms around, like this.
▪ This is such beautiful material - it feels like silk.
▪ This superb almost-flourless chocolate cake is something like a brownie for grownups.
▪ We could cook something easy, like pasta.
▪ We still haven't settled a number of problems, like who is going to be in charge here while I'm away.
▪ You're treating him like a child.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
▪ Mr. Needham I am sure that all the people of Belfast would like to thank my hon. Friend for her comments.
▪ Others were more interested in being with people and being liked.
▪ It isn't a subject that most people like to dwell on; it may never even have occurred to you.
▪ People who question Davis' ability to win in court are people who like to wear barrels instead of clothes.
▪ Lots of people don't like him, and some actively loathe him, but try to see the better side.
▪ The reason why people like each other is important.
▪ Few people liked it, most either ignored it or hated it.
▪ There are many people who like to explore the unknown.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be/feel) like a fish out of water
▪ I felt like a fish out of water.
▪ In his first interview since the move, he still looks like a fish out of water.
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
a face like thunder
▪ She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder.
a voice like a foghorn
anything like sb/sth
▪ Does Brenda look anything like her mother?
be (like) a drug
▪ At 17 he was a drug addict.
▪ Casodex is a drug that blocks the release of testosterone, a hormone that is linked to prostate cancer.
▪ I would have loved a drink, but I thought it might be drugged.
▪ Of those held in federal rather than state prisons, 60 % are drug offenders with no history of violence.
▪ The more complete descriptive term is drug elimination half-life.
▪ The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.
▪ The robber bridegroom could be a drug pusher in-stead of a homicidal cannibal, for instance.
▪ Tobacco is a drug and addicts should be given a chance to ease off gradually.
be (like) a morgue
be (like) a mother to sb
be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall
be dying/dropping etc like flies
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ The men were dying like flies, of fever.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be like a bear with a sore head
be like gold dust
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be packed like sardines
▪ We were packed like sardines on the train.
▪ On the other side of the building turtles are packed like sardines into more tanks.
be selling/going like hot cakes
be to sb's liking
▪ I hope everything in the suite was to your liking, sir.
▪ After deciding that a paper looks, feels and smells to your liking, a few other factors should be considered.
▪ Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.
▪ However, with the two medium-sized potatoes and a spoonful of carrots, she found this also quite to her liking.
▪ Joining the group for 12 laps of grassy field surrounding the track, I found their easy pace to my liking.
▪ Need I add that impairment is more to my liking than good health?
▪ She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last.
▪ The second half is more to her liking.
▪ This may be to your liking so it is worth experimenting with three, four and five rises.
be/feel like a new man/woman
be/feel/look like your old self
▪ After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
▪ Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
▪ It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
▪ Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
▪ She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
▪ She looked nothing like her photograph.
▪ The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
come down on sb like a ton of bricks
do sth like the devil
▪ They rang the doorbell and ran like the devil.
▪ He holds me like the devil himself.
▪ Hencke heard one canister bounce off the outer hull with a dull echo like the Devil knocking at the door.
▪ It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil.
▪ Not screaming, although some of them must have fought like the devil not to.
▪ The hitchhiker keeps showing up, like a bad dream, like the devil himself.
▪ They scampered off, barking like the devil.
▪ Very good, Thérèse conceded afterwards: just like the Devil would do.
do sth like there's no tomorrow
▪ Ben drives like there's no tomorrow.
▪ I eat and drink like there's no tomorrow.
drop/go down like ninepins
▪ Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
feel like/turn to jelly
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
▪ He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
▪ In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
▪ I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
▪ And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
▪ Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit.
▪ Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit.
▪ The school made you feel like shit.
▪ We really do look like shit.
▪ You looked like shit the other night.
for all the world as if/as though/like
for sb's liking
get on/along like a house on fire
go down like a lead balloon
go/be out like a light
▪ She was out like a light, as soon as we put her in bed.
▪ A minute later he went out like a light.
▪ Either it was the brandy or it was the heat, but she went out like a light.
▪ I went out like a light.
▪ Something hit me on the back of the head, here, and I went out like a light.
go/run like clockwork
▪ A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
▪ And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.
▪ Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
▪ Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.
▪ Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
have a memory like a sieve
▪ You'd better remind him about the party - he's got a memory like a sieve!
have eyes like a hawk
▪ My mother had eyes like a hawk.
have eyes like a hawk
hit sb like a ton of bricks
▪ The news of her accident hit me like a ton of bricks.
hold/hang on for/like grim death
how about that!/how do you like that!
how you like/want
▪ First decide how you want to set up your directories.
▪ Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
▪ It's how we like to see ourselves.
▪ Live your life how you want.
▪ Oh, how I wanted to win!
▪ Oh, how she wanted him to.
▪ Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
▪ You try reading this with only one eye and see how you like it.
in/like a flash
▪ The computer can sort and edit a mailing list in a flash.
▪ He also had a nature that went violent in a flash.
▪ If he knew what I wanted he'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock.
▪ It's all done in a flash these days.
▪ It was over in a flash.
▪ Shelby chooses the green chair for her dad, then like a flash, she's off to the house.
▪ The lesson seemed to pass in a flash.
▪ Two shots, they stop in a flash.
▪ We went by the tower like a flash and landed on the red cross near the newly set-up hospital tent.
like Darby and Joan
like a (hot) knife through butter
▪ Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter.
like a bat out of hell
▪ I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.
▪ They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.
like a bull at a gate
▪ They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate.
like a bull in a china shop
▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
like a cat on hot bricks
like a dog with two tails
like a dose of salts
▪ L.M. True - like a dose of salts!
like a dream
▪ The new car drives like a dream.
▪ But elsewhere Dream Stuff does not soothe.Life is like a dream because it is beyond control.
▪ He kept talking about it, like a dream.
▪ It is like a dream come true.
▪ Others, like dreams of fame or wealth, are egocentric.
▪ Some, like dreams of providing a great service, are altruistic.
▪ These tiresome but, one hopes, isolated problems aside, our Metro 1.1S is still running like a dream.
▪ Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her.
like a lamb
▪ Suzie went off to school like a lamb today.
▪ He felt he had taken his only child like a lamb to the slaughter.
▪ I certainly don't like lamb for three meals running.
▪ March, according to the weather proverb, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
▪ While others were being lionised he conducted himself like a lamb or even a mouse.
like a lamb to the slaughter
like a mother hen
like a rabbit/deer caught in headlights
like a red rag to a bull
▪ Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
like a shot
▪ She slammed the phone down and was out of the room like a shot.
▪ He asked Jeter if he'd like a shot at it.
▪ I'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam.
▪ It is not a direct stimulant, like a shot of adrenaline.
▪ She'd be off to Legoland like a shot, to see that caretaker, if Henry said anything.
▪ Sometimes they fall over one another, like shots from a rapid-fire camera.
▪ The great majority, once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
▪ Travis had left the door open - she seized her chance, and was through it like a shot.
like an oven
▪ I wish they'd turn off the heat. It's like an oven in here.
▪ It's like an oven in here. Let's open some windows.
▪ The heat of the day made the gymnasium feel like an oven.
▪ Makes it like an oven, spoiling the negatives.
▪ The room is like an oven already.
like anything
▪ Tom only left last week and I already miss him like anything.
▪ But like anything else worthy of our attention, it takes a little educating.
▪ I mean, eight singles hardly seems like anything at all.
▪ If it was like anything, thought Henry, it was probably like the art of eating out.
▪ It may not be perfect, and it may not even be like anything we have seen before.
▪ Somewhat softened by wind erosion, the surface none the less looked more like the lunar highlands than like anything on Earth.
▪ The interior is nothing like anything I've seen before.
▪ They would probably worry like anything.
▪ To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
like blazes
▪ We're going to have to work like blazes to win this time!
▪ You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes.
like clockwork
▪ At 6:30 every evening, like clockwork, Ari went out to milk the cows.
▪ The charity event was well organized and ran like clockwork.
like crazy
▪ These mosquito bites on my leg are itching like crazy.
▪ We ran like crazy to the bus stop.
like father like son
like fun
▪ "I'm going to Barbara's house." "Like fun you are! Come and finish your chores first."
like fury
like gangbusters
▪ Fraser's historical novels are selling like gangbusters.
like getting blood out of a stone
like hell/the hell
like it's going out of fashion
▪ She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.
like lightning
▪ Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles but Mitch moved like lightning and caught her before she fell.
▪ Somewhere a dog barked and, like lightning, the cat darted into some bushes.
▪ The cat ran up the tree like lightning.
like looking for a needle in a haystack
like mad
like magic/as if by magic
like new/as good as new
like nobody's business
▪ People are buying Internet stocks like nobody's business.
like sheep
like so
▪ Then turn the paper over and fold it, like so.
like the cat that got the cream
like the wind
▪ A light wind ruffled the leaves of the trees, but it was warm, not cold like the winds of winter.
▪ Cos it looks like the wind blew her face inside out.
▪ He swept towards me, like the wind raising a storm as soaring eagles raise dust.
▪ Something was sweeping through that massive arena like the wind moving through the top of the trees.
▪ The boy was driving like the wind when suddenly we hit something.
▪ We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda.
▪ Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river.
like two peas in a pod
like water
like water off a duck's back
like weeds
▪ Aerials sprout up like weeds on the roof.
▪ Cars were suffocating the roads like weeds.
▪ Flavor-of-the-month or program-du-jour comments crop up like weeds.
▪ Still, development had sprung up around the edges, like weeds encroaching on a garden.
▪ The eggplants flourished, and the next spring more of them popped up all over the garden like weeds.
liking for sb/sth
▪ She'd tried to hide her liking for him.
look like a drowned rat
▪ Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
▪ You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
much like sth/much as
▪ Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
▪ For at school, the young man would be surrounded by men much like him-self.
▪ The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside.
▪ They like their bikes to be as much like cars as possible.
▪ What he wanted, of course, was for me to write as much like he did as I possibly could.
need/want sth like a hole in the head
not anything like/near
not like the sound of sth
▪ "There's been a slight change in our plans." "I don't like the sound of that."
▪ I just did not like the sound of this woman.
▪ She did not like the sound of those words he was using.
rise like a phoenix from the ashes
run around like a headless chicken
▪ The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
▪ Little legs going like the clappers.
▪ Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
▪ I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell.
▪ I remember running like hell, knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
▪ I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell.
▪ Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
▪ My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
▪ Run, North, run; just run like hell.
▪ Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
▪ We fought like hell for most of the time.
smoke like a chimney
▪ She's only thirteen and she already smokes like a chimney.
▪ My granddad, who smoked like a chimney and lived to 97, was lucky enough never to encounter a promoter.
▪ The only sadness was that they all appeared to smoke like chimneys.
something like 100/2,000 etc
▪ Insignia has something like 100 engineers working on its line.
spin like a top
▪ And then the Alouette was spinning like a top and curving off over the Aegean.
▪ Obviously, any knock could send her mind spinning like a top.
sth is (like) a religion
▪ But Cirrito is quick to point out that Rastafarianism is a religion, whereas reggae is a beat.
▪ If there is a theme here, it is religion.
▪ This form of witchcraft is a religion of the earth.
stick/stand out like a sore thumb
▪ You can't come to the restaurant dressed in jeans. You'd stick out like a sore thumb.
▪ For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb.
▪ Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb.
▪ Having said that, in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb.
▪ I mean, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
▪ There's no cover, and - as happened to me - any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb.
▪ We stand out like sore thumbs.
▪ You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.
swear like a trooper
▪ Throwing on a dressing-gown and swearing like a trooper, you stumble to answer it.
take a liking to sb/sth
▪ He immediately took a liking to Malden.
▪ Connors had actually taken a liking to me after the incident with the gun.
▪ For some reason she had taken a liking to him.
▪ Fortunately, he had taken a liking to Claudel last year.
▪ He had a fresh, open face, and stars in his eyes, and she took a liking to him at once.
▪ She took a liking to me.
▪ They kept going to this restaurant, and the proprietor took a liking to them.
take to something like a duck to water
▪ She's taken to her new position like a duck to water.
take your medicine (like a man)
▪ Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine.
▪ Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
▪ He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
▪ He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine.
▪ He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine, and started to drink.
▪ His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine, and he travels too much.
▪ Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
▪ Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine.
there's nothing like sth
▪ There's nothing like a nice hot bath to help you relax.
▪ And there's nothing like a conversation when you smoke.
▪ Facing page: there's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where's the Kendal Mint cake?
▪ No, there's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself.
▪ Second team or not, however, there's nothing like the first century.
▪ When the weather's good there's nothing like a luxurious dessert to give a special menu a final flourish.
treat sb like shit
▪ Everybody always treats me like shit.
turn up like a bad penny
watch sb like a hawk
▪ Parents should watch their kids like a hawk for sunburns.
▪ And it's putting me off, having you watching me like a hawk all the time.
▪ He seemed to be watching her like a hawk, waiting for some reaction.
▪ Kruger is watching them like a hawk!
▪ They're watching me like hawks here.
▪ Today, more than usual, he had been watching them like a hawk.
what's not to like/love?
work like a Trojan
work like a charm
▪ Our new accounting system works like a charm.
▪ A slap on the hand or the behind works like a charm for one parent-child combination.
▪ But let me first applaud the coupling: it works like a charm.
▪ However, the schmaltzy parts, near the end, work like a charm.
▪ This time, the setup worked like a charm.
work like magic
▪ I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
work/run/go like stink
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you like spaghetti?
▪ Everybody liked Mr. Schofield, but he wasn't a very good teacher.
▪ How do you like your steak cooked?
▪ I've always liked Sally - she's a lot of fun.
▪ I like the way she interacts with children.
▪ I like to put lots of ketchup on my fries.
▪ I like your dress - it's a beautiful colour.
▪ I like your new car.
▪ I liked her, but I was afraid to ask her to go out with me.
▪ I don't like meetings, especially if they go on for too long.
▪ I don't think Professor Riker likes me.
▪ I never really like her - she was always a bit stuck-up and condescending.
▪ I think Roy likes living alone.
▪ My daughter doesn't like lima beans.
▪ Nick likes to relax and read a book in the evenings.
▪ We liked living abroad. It was a wonderful experience.
▪ What did you like about the movie?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He doesn't like gossip, our Jack.
▪ I'd really like some breakfast.
▪ I should like to call again soon to take a drive to some other point in the country.
▪ In accepting both what I like and don't like in her, I can more readily accept both aspects in myself.
▪ Mixed in with most of the words in Englishand very likely every other language-is some taint of liking or disliking.
▪ More worried now than she liked to admit, Piper extended her search for the Base Administrator to the refectory.
▪ So you can hate them, or like them, or love them.
▪ You have your friends; the faculty likes you; you play on teams.
III.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ But it has started to feel like I am being rude and ungrateful, dO you understand?
▪ Which is why I feel like I sort of owe him this.
▪ You made me feel like I was your family, a part of you.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be/feel) like a fish out of water
▪ I felt like a fish out of water.
▪ In his first interview since the move, he still looks like a fish out of water.
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
a face like thunder
▪ She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder.
anything like sb/sth
▪ Does Brenda look anything like her mother?
as if/as though/like you own the place
be (like) a drug
▪ At 17 he was a drug addict.
▪ Casodex is a drug that blocks the release of testosterone, a hormone that is linked to prostate cancer.
▪ I would have loved a drink, but I thought it might be drugged.
▪ Of those held in federal rather than state prisons, 60 % are drug offenders with no history of violence.
▪ The more complete descriptive term is drug elimination half-life.
▪ The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.
▪ The robber bridegroom could be a drug pusher in-stead of a homicidal cannibal, for instance.
▪ Tobacco is a drug and addicts should be given a chance to ease off gradually.
be (like) a morgue
be (like) a mother to sb
be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall
be dropping like flies
▪ Players from both teams are dropping like flies.
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be dying/dropping etc like flies
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ The men were dying like flies, of fever.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be like talking to a brick wall
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be packed like sardines
▪ We were packed like sardines on the train.
▪ On the other side of the building turtles are packed like sardines into more tanks.
be selling/going like hot cakes
be/feel like a new man/woman
be/feel/look like your old self
▪ After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
▪ Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
▪ It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
▪ Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
▪ She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
▪ She looked nothing like her photograph.
▪ The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
can read sb like a book
▪ I can read you like a book - some book I've read six times already.
come down on sb like a ton of bricks
do sth like there's no tomorrow
▪ Ben drives like there's no tomorrow.
▪ I eat and drink like there's no tomorrow.
drop/go down like ninepins
▪ Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
feel like (doing) sth
▪ I just don't feel like doing anything tonight.
▪ Joe says he feels like Mexican food.
▪ But the whole thing feels like a retread.&.
▪ He feels like the captain of a sleeping ship, alone at the helm, steering his oblivious crew through dangerous seas.
▪ I hang up, feeling like a wind-up toy.
▪ She felt like screaming at him, but she was determined not to lose her self-control.
▪ The careful procession into the Hall had felt like a kind of funeral.
▪ They stepped forward, and his muscles stiffened until they felt like bone.
▪ You made me feel like I was your family, a part of you.
feel like/turn to jelly
feel/look like hell
▪ He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
▪ In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
▪ I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
▪ And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
▪ Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit.
▪ Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit.
▪ The school made you feel like shit.
▪ We really do look like shit.
▪ You looked like shit the other night.
fight like cat and dog
for all the world as if/as though/like
get to like/know/understand sb/sth
▪ All I had to do was got to know his taste in food.
▪ Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.
▪ He got to know Bill Clinton quite well when they were together at Oxford as Rhodes scholars.
▪ I would like to get to know customers well 8.
▪ It was one of Brian's three daughters, Karen, who got to know Kirsty.
▪ Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story.
▪ She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people.
▪ So I got, I sort of got to know her.
go/run like clockwork
▪ A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
▪ And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.
▪ Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
▪ Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.
▪ Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
hit sb like a ton of bricks
▪ The news of her accident hit me like a ton of bricks.
hold/hang on for/like grim death
how about that!/how do you like that!
how you like/want
▪ First decide how you want to set up your directories.
▪ Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
▪ It's how we like to see ourselves.
▪ Live your life how you want.
▪ Oh, how I wanted to win!
▪ Oh, how she wanted him to.
▪ Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
▪ You try reading this with only one eye and see how you like it.
like Darby and Joan
like a bat out of hell
▪ I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.
▪ They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.
like a dose of salts
▪ L.M. True - like a dose of salts!
like a red rag to a bull
▪ Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
like anything
▪ Tom only left last week and I already miss him like anything.
▪ But like anything else worthy of our attention, it takes a little educating.
▪ I mean, eight singles hardly seems like anything at all.
▪ If it was like anything, thought Henry, it was probably like the art of eating out.
▪ It may not be perfect, and it may not even be like anything we have seen before.
▪ Somewhat softened by wind erosion, the surface none the less looked more like the lunar highlands than like anything on Earth.
▪ The interior is nothing like anything I've seen before.
▪ They would probably worry like anything.
▪ To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
like blazes
▪ We're going to have to work like blazes to win this time!
▪ You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes.
like clockwork
▪ At 6:30 every evening, like clockwork, Ari went out to milk the cows.
▪ The charity event was well organized and ran like clockwork.
like crazy
▪ These mosquito bites on my leg are itching like crazy.
▪ We ran like crazy to the bus stop.
like father like son
like fun
▪ "I'm going to Barbara's house." "Like fun you are! Come and finish your chores first."
like fury
like gangbusters
▪ Fraser's historical novels are selling like gangbusters.
like getting blood out of a stone
like greased lightning
▪ They expect the bill to move through Congress like greased lightning.
▪ The following passage exemplifies, for Rees, macho characteristics: Clogger moved like greased lightning.
like hell/the hell
like it's going out of fashion
▪ She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.
like lightning
▪ Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles but Mitch moved like lightning and caught her before she fell.
▪ Somewhere a dog barked and, like lightning, the cat darted into some bushes.
▪ The cat ran up the tree like lightning.
like looking for a needle in a haystack
like mad
like magic/as if by magic
like new/as good as new
like nobody's business
▪ People are buying Internet stocks like nobody's business.
like sheep
like so
▪ Then turn the paper over and fold it, like so.
like two peas in a pod
like water
like water off a duck's back
like weeds
▪ Aerials sprout up like weeds on the roof.
▪ Cars were suffocating the roads like weeds.
▪ Flavor-of-the-month or program-du-jour comments crop up like weeds.
▪ Still, development had sprung up around the edges, like weeds encroaching on a garden.
▪ The eggplants flourished, and the next spring more of them popped up all over the garden like weeds.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
make like
make out like a bandit
▪ Insurance companies always make out like bandits.
▪ Salomon Brothers and my customer made out like bandits.
much like sth/much as
▪ Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
▪ For at school, the young man would be surrounded by men much like him-self.
▪ The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside.
▪ They like their bikes to be as much like cars as possible.
▪ What he wanted, of course, was for me to write as much like he did as I possibly could.
need sth like a hole in the head
not anything like/near
not like the sound of sth
▪ "There's been a slight change in our plans." "I don't like the sound of that."
▪ I just did not like the sound of this woman.
▪ She did not like the sound of those words he was using.
nothing succeeds like success
▪ Initially nothing succeeds like success: but eventually success exceeds itself, and decline and despondency set in.
run around like a headless chicken
▪ The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
▪ I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell.
▪ I remember running like hell, knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
▪ I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell.
▪ Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
▪ My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
▪ Run, North, run; just run like hell.
▪ Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
▪ We fought like hell for most of the time.
say what you like
▪ Clearly western painters said what they liked, how they liked.
▪ From now on he could do and say what he liked - they wouldn't raise a squeak.
▪ He could say what he liked, but she was now controlling the agenda.
▪ I can say what I like.
▪ If she just vanishes, Elizabeth Roisin can say what she likes, but there's nothing she can do!
▪ There must, he said, be a place where people are free to say what they like.
▪ We can do what we like and say what we like to whomever we like, without restriction.
▪ While manufacturers say what they like about themselves through advertising, favourable public opinion for their products or services is earned.
sell like hot cakes
something like 100/2,000 etc
▪ Insignia has something like 100 engineers working on its line.
sth is (like) a religion
▪ But Cirrito is quick to point out that Rastafarianism is a religion, whereas reggae is a beat.
▪ If there is a theme here, it is religion.
▪ This form of witchcraft is a religion of the earth.
sth is like herding cats
sth is like pulling teeth
▪ Getting the kids to do their homework was like pulling teeth.
stick/stand out like a sore thumb
▪ You can't come to the restaurant dressed in jeans. You'd stick out like a sore thumb.
▪ For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb.
▪ Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb.
▪ Having said that, in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb.
▪ I mean, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
▪ There's no cover, and - as happened to me - any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb.
▪ We stand out like sore thumbs.
▪ You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.
tell it like it is
▪ But no one can blame Rush for telling it like it is.
▪ He tells it like it is.
▪ I try to tell it like it is.
▪ She tells it like it is, or seems to.
there's nothing like sth
▪ There's nothing like a nice hot bath to help you relax.
▪ And there's nothing like a conversation when you smoke.
▪ Facing page: there's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where's the Kendal Mint cake?
▪ No, there's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself.
▪ Second team or not, however, there's nothing like the first century.
▪ When the weather's good there's nothing like a luxurious dessert to give a special menu a final flourish.
treat sb like shit
▪ Everybody always treats me like shit.
what's not to like/love?
work like magic
▪ I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
work like magic/work like a charm
work/run/go like stink
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond the talk of coalitions, alphabetic organizations, and the like, there are at length real people.
▪ Despite the expensive-looking Baroque decor and the pianist, this place serves cheap pizzas and the like.
IV.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you think you could, like, not tell anyone what happened?
▪ It was like 9 o'clock when I got home.
▪ That is a scary intersection. Like yesterday I saw two cars go straight through a red light.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Like by, like by the seven eleven.
▪ It was like this is this is the look of puzzlement.
V.conjunction
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He acted like he owned the place.
▪ I don't want him treating me like Jim treated me.
VI.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
manner
▪ Little attempt is made to treat like situations in a like manner or to act consistently within a framework of judicial analysis.
▪ Her own four daughters held their dolls in a like manner when they first began to play with them.
▪ The other four domes are supported in a like manner and short barrel vaults connect one dome to another.
▪ In like manner the suffrage of women prior to 1918 was a claimed moral right.
▪ And in like manner buyers will fence, and pretend to be less eager than they really are.
▪ In like manner, but without the risk, Bloomsbury chipped away at the standards inherited from Victorians.
mind
▪ A belief in criticism was an affirmation to be made in earnest assemblies of like minds.
▪ We found women of like mind.
▪ The people of the village are of like mind. 5.
▪ The Vicosinos were of like mind and thus Supported the project to purchase the land and liberate these families from serfdom.
▪ She says that it's the bringing together of like minds.
▪ When it comes to minding their own business, Montanans are of a like mind.
▪ Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found some one of a like mind who was also keen to start.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be/feel) like a fish out of water
▪ I felt like a fish out of water.
▪ In his first interview since the move, he still looks like a fish out of water.
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
a face like thunder
▪ She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder.
a voice like a foghorn
anything like sb/sth
▪ Does Brenda look anything like her mother?
as if/as though/like you own the place
be (like) a drug
▪ At 17 he was a drug addict.
▪ Casodex is a drug that blocks the release of testosterone, a hormone that is linked to prostate cancer.
▪ I would have loved a drink, but I thought it might be drugged.
▪ Of those held in federal rather than state prisons, 60 % are drug offenders with no history of violence.
▪ The more complete descriptive term is drug elimination half-life.
▪ The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.
▪ The robber bridegroom could be a drug pusher in-stead of a homicidal cannibal, for instance.
▪ Tobacco is a drug and addicts should be given a chance to ease off gradually.
be (like) a morgue
be (like) a mother to sb
be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall
be dropping like flies
▪ Players from both teams are dropping like flies.
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be dying/dropping etc like flies
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ The men were dying like flies, of fever.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be like a bear with a sore head
be like gold dust
be like talking to a brick wall
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be packed like sardines
▪ We were packed like sardines on the train.
▪ On the other side of the building turtles are packed like sardines into more tanks.
be selling/going like hot cakes
be to sb's liking
▪ I hope everything in the suite was to your liking, sir.
▪ After deciding that a paper looks, feels and smells to your liking, a few other factors should be considered.
▪ Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.
▪ However, with the two medium-sized potatoes and a spoonful of carrots, she found this also quite to her liking.
▪ Joining the group for 12 laps of grassy field surrounding the track, I found their easy pace to my liking.
▪ Need I add that impairment is more to my liking than good health?
▪ She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last.
▪ The second half is more to her liking.
▪ This may be to your liking so it is worth experimenting with three, four and five rises.
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
▪ Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
▪ It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
▪ Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
▪ She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
▪ She looked nothing like her photograph.
▪ The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
can read sb like a book
▪ I can read you like a book - some book I've read six times already.
come down on sb like a ton of bricks
do sth like the devil
▪ They rang the doorbell and ran like the devil.
▪ He holds me like the devil himself.
▪ Hencke heard one canister bounce off the outer hull with a dull echo like the Devil knocking at the door.
▪ It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil.
▪ Not screaming, although some of them must have fought like the devil not to.
▪ The hitchhiker keeps showing up, like a bad dream, like the devil himself.
▪ They scampered off, barking like the devil.
▪ Very good, Thérèse conceded afterwards: just like the Devil would do.
do sth like there's no tomorrow
▪ Ben drives like there's no tomorrow.
▪ I eat and drink like there's no tomorrow.
drop/go down like ninepins
▪ Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
feel like (doing) sth
▪ I just don't feel like doing anything tonight.
▪ Joe says he feels like Mexican food.
▪ But the whole thing feels like a retread.&.
▪ He feels like the captain of a sleeping ship, alone at the helm, steering his oblivious crew through dangerous seas.
▪ I hang up, feeling like a wind-up toy.
▪ She felt like screaming at him, but she was determined not to lose her self-control.
▪ The careful procession into the Hall had felt like a kind of funeral.
▪ They stepped forward, and his muscles stiffened until they felt like bone.
▪ You made me feel like I was your family, a part of you.
feel like/turn to jelly
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
▪ He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
▪ In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
▪ I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
▪ And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
▪ Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit.
▪ Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit.
▪ The school made you feel like shit.
▪ We really do look like shit.
▪ You looked like shit the other night.
fight like cat and dog
for all the world as if/as though/like
for sb's liking
get on/along like a house on fire
get to like/know/understand sb/sth
▪ All I had to do was got to know his taste in food.
▪ Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.
▪ He got to know Bill Clinton quite well when they were together at Oxford as Rhodes scholars.
▪ I would like to get to know customers well 8.
▪ It was one of Brian's three daughters, Karen, who got to know Kirsty.
▪ Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story.
▪ She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people.
▪ So I got, I sort of got to know her.
go down like a lead balloon
go/be out like a light
▪ She was out like a light, as soon as we put her in bed.
▪ A minute later he went out like a light.
▪ Either it was the brandy or it was the heat, but she went out like a light.
▪ I went out like a light.
▪ Something hit me on the back of the head, here, and I went out like a light.
go/run like clockwork
▪ A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
▪ And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.
▪ Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
▪ Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.
▪ Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
have a memory like a sieve
▪ You'd better remind him about the party - he's got a memory like a sieve!
have eyes like a hawk
▪ My mother had eyes like a hawk.
have eyes like a hawk
hit sb like a ton of bricks
▪ The news of her accident hit me like a ton of bricks.
how about that!/how do you like that!
how you like/want
▪ First decide how you want to set up your directories.
▪ Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
▪ It's how we like to see ourselves.
▪ Live your life how you want.
▪ Oh, how I wanted to win!
▪ Oh, how she wanted him to.
▪ Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
▪ You try reading this with only one eye and see how you like it.
in/like a flash
▪ The computer can sort and edit a mailing list in a flash.
▪ He also had a nature that went violent in a flash.
▪ If he knew what I wanted he'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock.
▪ It's all done in a flash these days.
▪ It was over in a flash.
▪ Shelby chooses the green chair for her dad, then like a flash, she's off to the house.
▪ The lesson seemed to pass in a flash.
▪ Two shots, they stop in a flash.
▪ We went by the tower like a flash and landed on the red cross near the newly set-up hospital tent.
like Darby and Joan
like a (hot) knife through butter
▪ Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter.
like a bat out of hell
▪ I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.
▪ They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.
like a bull at a gate
▪ They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate.
like a bull in a china shop
▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
like a cat on hot bricks
like a dog with two tails
like a dose of salts
▪ L.M. True - like a dose of salts!
like a dream
▪ The new car drives like a dream.
▪ But elsewhere Dream Stuff does not soothe.Life is like a dream because it is beyond control.
▪ He kept talking about it, like a dream.
▪ It is like a dream come true.
▪ Others, like dreams of fame or wealth, are egocentric.
▪ Some, like dreams of providing a great service, are altruistic.
▪ These tiresome but, one hopes, isolated problems aside, our Metro 1.1S is still running like a dream.
▪ Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her.
like a lamb
▪ Suzie went off to school like a lamb today.
▪ He felt he had taken his only child like a lamb to the slaughter.
▪ I certainly don't like lamb for three meals running.
▪ March, according to the weather proverb, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
▪ While others were being lionised he conducted himself like a lamb or even a mouse.
like a lamb to the slaughter
like a mother hen
like a rabbit/deer caught in headlights
like a shot
▪ She slammed the phone down and was out of the room like a shot.
▪ He asked Jeter if he'd like a shot at it.
▪ I'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam.
▪ It is not a direct stimulant, like a shot of adrenaline.
▪ She'd be off to Legoland like a shot, to see that caretaker, if Henry said anything.
▪ Sometimes they fall over one another, like shots from a rapid-fire camera.
▪ The great majority, once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
▪ Travis had left the door open - she seized her chance, and was through it like a shot.
like an oven
▪ I wish they'd turn off the heat. It's like an oven in here.
▪ It's like an oven in here. Let's open some windows.
▪ The heat of the day made the gymnasium feel like an oven.
▪ Makes it like an oven, spoiling the negatives.
▪ The room is like an oven already.
like anything
▪ Tom only left last week and I already miss him like anything.
▪ But like anything else worthy of our attention, it takes a little educating.
▪ I mean, eight singles hardly seems like anything at all.
▪ If it was like anything, thought Henry, it was probably like the art of eating out.
▪ It may not be perfect, and it may not even be like anything we have seen before.
▪ Somewhat softened by wind erosion, the surface none the less looked more like the lunar highlands than like anything on Earth.
▪ The interior is nothing like anything I've seen before.
▪ They would probably worry like anything.
▪ To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
like blazes
▪ We're going to have to work like blazes to win this time!
▪ You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes.
like clockwork
▪ At 6:30 every evening, like clockwork, Ari went out to milk the cows.
▪ The charity event was well organized and ran like clockwork.
like father like son
like fun
▪ "I'm going to Barbara's house." "Like fun you are! Come and finish your chores first."
like fury
like gangbusters
▪ Fraser's historical novels are selling like gangbusters.
like getting blood out of a stone
like greased lightning
▪ They expect the bill to move through Congress like greased lightning.
▪ The following passage exemplifies, for Rees, macho characteristics: Clogger moved like greased lightning.
like hell/the hell
like it's going out of fashion
▪ She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.
like lightning
▪ Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles but Mitch moved like lightning and caught her before she fell.
▪ Somewhere a dog barked and, like lightning, the cat darted into some bushes.
▪ The cat ran up the tree like lightning.
like looking for a needle in a haystack
like magic/as if by magic
like nobody's business
▪ People are buying Internet stocks like nobody's business.
like sheep
like so
▪ Then turn the paper over and fold it, like so.
like the cat that got the cream
like the wind
▪ A light wind ruffled the leaves of the trees, but it was warm, not cold like the winds of winter.
▪ Cos it looks like the wind blew her face inside out.
▪ He swept towards me, like the wind raising a storm as soaring eagles raise dust.
▪ Something was sweeping through that massive arena like the wind moving through the top of the trees.
▪ The boy was driving like the wind when suddenly we hit something.
▪ We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda.
▪ Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river.
like two peas in a pod
like water
like water off a duck's back
like weeds
▪ Aerials sprout up like weeds on the roof.
▪ Cars were suffocating the roads like weeds.
▪ Flavor-of-the-month or program-du-jour comments crop up like weeds.
▪ Still, development had sprung up around the edges, like weeds encroaching on a garden.
▪ The eggplants flourished, and the next spring more of them popped up all over the garden like weeds.
liking for sb/sth
▪ She'd tried to hide her liking for him.
look like a drowned rat
▪ Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
▪ You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
make like
make out like a bandit
▪ Insurance companies always make out like bandits.
▪ Salomon Brothers and my customer made out like bandits.
much like sth/much as
▪ Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
▪ For at school, the young man would be surrounded by men much like him-self.
▪ The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside.
▪ They like their bikes to be as much like cars as possible.
▪ What he wanted, of course, was for me to write as much like he did as I possibly could.
need sth like a hole in the head
need/want sth like a hole in the head
not anything like/near
not like the sound of sth
▪ "There's been a slight change in our plans." "I don't like the sound of that."
▪ I just did not like the sound of this woman.
▪ She did not like the sound of those words he was using.
nothing succeeds like success
▪ Initially nothing succeeds like success: but eventually success exceeds itself, and decline and despondency set in.
rise like a phoenix from the ashes
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
▪ Little legs going like the clappers.
▪ Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
▪ I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell.
▪ I remember running like hell, knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
▪ I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell.
▪ Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
▪ My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
▪ Run, North, run; just run like hell.
▪ Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
▪ We fought like hell for most of the time.
say what you like
▪ Clearly western painters said what they liked, how they liked.
▪ From now on he could do and say what he liked - they wouldn't raise a squeak.
▪ He could say what he liked, but she was now controlling the agenda.
▪ I can say what I like.
▪ If she just vanishes, Elizabeth Roisin can say what she likes, but there's nothing she can do!
▪ There must, he said, be a place where people are free to say what they like.
▪ We can do what we like and say what we like to whomever we like, without restriction.
▪ While manufacturers say what they like about themselves through advertising, favourable public opinion for their products or services is earned.
sell like hot cakes
smoke like a chimney
▪ She's only thirteen and she already smokes like a chimney.
▪ My granddad, who smoked like a chimney and lived to 97, was lucky enough never to encounter a promoter.
▪ The only sadness was that they all appeared to smoke like chimneys.
something like 100/2,000 etc
▪ Insignia has something like 100 engineers working on its line.
spin like a top
▪ And then the Alouette was spinning like a top and curving off over the Aegean.
▪ Obviously, any knock could send her mind spinning like a top.
sth is (like) a religion
▪ But Cirrito is quick to point out that Rastafarianism is a religion, whereas reggae is a beat.
▪ If there is a theme here, it is religion.
▪ This form of witchcraft is a religion of the earth.
sth is like herding cats
sth is like pulling teeth
▪ Getting the kids to do their homework was like pulling teeth.
swear like a trooper
▪ Throwing on a dressing-gown and swearing like a trooper, you stumble to answer it.
take a liking to sb/sth
▪ He immediately took a liking to Malden.
▪ Connors had actually taken a liking to me after the incident with the gun.
▪ For some reason she had taken a liking to him.
▪ Fortunately, he had taken a liking to Claudel last year.
▪ He had a fresh, open face, and stars in his eyes, and she took a liking to him at once.
▪ She took a liking to me.
▪ They kept going to this restaurant, and the proprietor took a liking to them.
take to something like a duck to water
▪ She's taken to her new position like a duck to water.
take your medicine (like a man)
▪ Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine.
▪ Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
▪ He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
▪ He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine.
▪ He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine, and started to drink.
▪ His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine, and he travels too much.
▪ Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
▪ Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine.
tell it like it is
▪ But no one can blame Rush for telling it like it is.
▪ He tells it like it is.
▪ I try to tell it like it is.
▪ She tells it like it is, or seems to.
there's nothing like sth
▪ There's nothing like a nice hot bath to help you relax.
▪ And there's nothing like a conversation when you smoke.
▪ Facing page: there's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where's the Kendal Mint cake?
▪ No, there's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself.
▪ Second team or not, however, there's nothing like the first century.
▪ When the weather's good there's nothing like a luxurious dessert to give a special menu a final flourish.
treat sb like shit
▪ Everybody always treats me like shit.
turn up like a bad penny
watch sb like a hawk
▪ Parents should watch their kids like a hawk for sunburns.
▪ And it's putting me off, having you watching me like a hawk all the time.
▪ He seemed to be watching her like a hawk, waiting for some reaction.
▪ Kruger is watching them like a hawk!
▪ They're watching me like hawks here.
▪ Today, more than usual, he had been watching them like a hawk.
what's not to like/love?
work like a Trojan
work like a charm
▪ Our new accounting system works like a charm.
▪ A slap on the hand or the behind works like a charm for one parent-child combination.
▪ But let me first applaud the coupling: it works like a charm.
▪ However, the schmaltzy parts, near the end, work like a charm.
▪ This time, the setup worked like a charm.
work like magic
▪ I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
work like magic/work like a charm
work/run/go like stink
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By saying they're like bus queues, you've made lots of assumptions.
▪ It's like poetry, Tom Rigby says, when they're working well.
▪ It sort of migrated upward, like cream rising to the top.
▪ The problem is that religion delivered as a sound bite is sort of like pate from a drive-through window.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Like

Like \Like\, n.

  1. That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy.

    He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
    --Shak.

  2. A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes.

  3. (Golf) The stroke which equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side; as, to play the like.

Like

Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), a. [Compar. Liker (l[imac]k"[~e]r); superl. Likest.] [OE. lik, ilik, gelic, AS. gel[=i]c, fr. pref. ge- + l[=i]c body, and orig. meaning, having the same body, shape, or appearance, and hence, like; akin to OS. gil[=i]k, D. gelijk, G. gleich, OHG. gil[=i]h, Icel. l[=i]kr, gl[=i]kr, Dan. lig, Sw. lik, Goth. galeiks, OS. lik body, D. lijk, G. leiche, Icel. l[=i]k, Sw. lik, Goth. leik. The English adverbial ending-ly is from the same adjective. Cf. Each, Such, Which.]

  1. Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.

    'T is as like you As cherry is to cherry.
    --Shak.

    Like master, like man.
    --Old Prov.

    He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
    --Ps. cxlvii. 16.

    Note: To, which formerly often followed like, is now usually omitted.

  2. Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.

    More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before.
    --Sprat.

  3. Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely.

    Usage: [Likely is more used now.]
    --Shak.

    But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
    --South.

    Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules.
    --Clarendon.

  4. Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk.

    Had like (followed by the infinitive), had nearly; came little short of.

    Had like to have been my utter overthrow.
    --Sir W. Raleigh

    Ramona had like to have said the literal truth, . . . but recollected herself in time.
    --Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

    Like figures (Geom.), similar figures.

    Note: Like is used as a suffix, converting nouns into adjectives expressing resemblance to the noun; as, manlike, like a man; childlike, like a child; godlike, like a god, etc. Such compounds are readily formed whenever convenient, and several, as crescentlike, serpentlike, hairlike, etc., are used in this book, although, in some cases, not entered in the vocabulary. Such combinations as bell-like, ball-like, etc., are hyphened.

Like

Like \Like\, adv. [AS. gel[=i]ce. See Like, a.]

  1. In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him.

    He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
    --Job xii. 25.

    Note: Like, as here used, is regarded by some grammarians as a preposition.

  2. In a like or similar manner.
    --Shak.

    Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
    --Ps. ciii. 1

  3. 3. Likely; probably. ``Like enough it will.''
    --Shak.

Like

Like \Like\ (l[imac]k), v. i.

  1. To be pleased; to choose.

    He may either go or stay, as he best likes.
    --Locke.

  2. To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). [Obs.]

    You like well, and bear your years very well.
    --Shak.

  3. To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a. [Colloq.]

    He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
    --Walpole.

    To like of, to be pleased with. [Obs.]
    --Massinger.

Like

Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Liking.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[=i]cian, gel[=i]cian, fr. gel[=i]c. See Like, a.]

  1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]

    Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
    --R. of Gloucester.

    I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy.

    He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.]

    Like me to the peasant boys of France.
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
like

c.1200, "a similar thing" (to another), from like (adj.).

like

Old English lician "to please, be sufficient," from Proto-Germanic *likjan (cognates: Old Norse lika, Old Frisian likia, Old High German lihhen, Gothic leikan "to please"), from *lik- "body, form; like, same."\n

\nThe basic meaning seems to be "to be like" (see like (adj.)), thus, "to be suitable." Like (and dislike) originally flowed the other way: It likes me, where we would say I like it. The modern flow began to appear late 14c. (compare please).

like

"having the same characteristics or qualities" (as another), Middle English shortening of Old English gelic "like, similar," from Proto-Germanic *galika- "having the same form," literally "with a corresponding body" (cognates: Old Saxon gilik, Dutch gelijk, German gleich, Gothic galeiks "equally, like"), a compound of *ga- "with, together" + Germanic base *lik- "body, form; like, same" (cognates: Old English lic "body," German Leiche "corpse," Danish lig, Swedish lik, Dutch lijk "body, corpse"). Analogous, etymologically, to Latin conform. The modern form (rather than *lich) may be from a northern descendant of the Old English word's Norse cognate, glikr.\n

\nFormerly with comparative liker and superlative likest (still in use 17c.). The preposition (c.1200) and the adverb (c.1300) both are from the adjective. As a conjunction, first attested early 16c. The word has been used as a postponed filler ("going really fast, like") from 1778; as a presumed emphatic ("going, like, really fast") from 1950, originally in counterculture slang and bop talk. Phrase more like it "closer to what is desired" is from 1888.

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Wiktionary
like

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context usually plural English) Something that a person likes (prefers). 2 (context internet English) The act of showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote. vb. 1 (lb en transitive archaic) To please. 2 To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. 3 (lb en obsolete) To derive pleasure ''of'', ''by'' or ''with'' someone or something. Etymology 2

  1. similar. adv. (context informal English) for example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples. conj. 1 (context colloquial English) as, the way 2 as if; as though interj. (context Liverpool Geordie English) Used to place emphasis upon a statement. n. 1 ''(sometimes as '''the likes of''')'' Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. 2 (context golf English) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side. part. 1 (context colloquial obsolete current in Scots English) (non-gloss definition: A delayed filler.) 2 (context colloquial English) (non-gloss definition: A mild intensifier.) 3 (context colloquial English) (non-gloss definition: indicating approximation or uncertainty) 4 (context colloquial slang English) (non-gloss definition: When preceded by any form of the verb '''to be''', used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase.) prep. Similar to, reminiscent of.

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WordNet
like

  1. v. prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?" [syn: wish, care]

  2. find enjoyable or agreeable; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels" [ant: dislike]

  3. be fond of; "I like my nephews"

  4. feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard; "How did you like the President's speech last night?"

  5. want to have; "I'd like a beer now!"

like

  1. adj. resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality" [syn: similar] [ant: unlike]

  2. equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number" [syn: equal, equivalent, same] [ant: unlike]

  3. having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste" [syn: alike(p), similar] [ant: unalike]

  4. conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year" [syn: comparable, corresponding]

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Wikipedia
Like

In the English language, the word like has a very flexible range of uses, ranging from conventional to non-standard. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, filler, and quotative.

Like (disambiguation)

Like is a word in English with a number of common uses.

Like may also refer to:

Like (novel)

Like is the debut novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in 1997 in the UK by Virago and in the following year in the US by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it draws much from Ali Smith's own life growing up in Inverness and then moving to Cambridge as a student.

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Usage examples of "like".

Clement, that my lord is anhungered of the praise of the folks, and is not like to abide in a mere merchant-town till the mould grow on his back.

But if ye like not the journey, abide here in this town the onset of Walter the Black.

But whatever may be the phases of the arts, there is the abiding principle of symmetry in the body of man, that goes erect, like an upright soul.

For a fraction of an instant Abie caught herself wondering what he might look like with no shirt.

He noticed the older antidepressants like amitriptyline decreased psychic ability, while the newer serotonin reuptake inhibitors were either neutral or they enhanced it.

Those that remained were vacuum ablating, their edges fraying like worn cloth, while their flat surfaces slowly dissolved, reducing their overall thickness.

These protected the main bodies by a process of ablation so that to the opposition each man appeared to flare up under fire like a living torch.

Leaving the cripple ablaze, settling, and pouring volcanic black smoke from the flammable cargo, he swung around in a long approach to what looked like a big troop Carrier, by far the fattest target in sight.

Her thoughts are like the lotus Abloom by sacred streams Beneath the temple arches Where Quiet sits and dreams.

There were several women delegates and Ken made the most of their ablutions until he was distracted by the appearance of Karanja in a neat grey suit, an ingratiating grin on his face and his big ears standing out like sails.

Church of England or of Rome as the medium of those superior ablutions described above, only that I think the Unitarian Church, like the Lyceum, as yet an open and uncommitted organ, free to admit the ministrations of any inspired man that shall pass by: whilst the other churches are committed and will exclude him.

And when I asked him how an abo could possibly have known what copper looked like in the ground, he said the man had been employed at one of the mines near Nullagine.

He watched as the first shark made a pass at Abo, who moved out of its way like a bullfighter.

The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.

Even so dressed, James Ludlow managed to look slightly out of place, very like a man who was too refined for life aboard a ship.